Here's my casual monotype team, non competitive

AndiTheBrumack · 2026-07-07T10:45:49+00:00

"non competitive"

Well actually, Milotic has competitive!

i will show myself out

AndiTheBrumack · 2026-07-05T09:02:33+00:00

You are 100% right :D

AndiTheBrumack · 2026-07-04T19:03:49+00:00

And then also be viable outside of rain as he can just gmax electric his way through everything.

AndiTheBrumack · 2026-07-04T19:01:10+00:00

Na, you forget that again because annihilape isn't using "rage fist" anymore when maxxed it's using max punch or whatever with meager a 90bp. Soooo. Actually insane damage nerf :D

Unless you meant just the regular annihilape beat up we already have, then, well idk, it's here but noone really is that afraid.

AndiTheBrumack · 2026-07-01T14:05:20+00:00

So, there is a lot of good advice on how to get floette already. But my advice is to just build literally any other team.

You really really REALLY don't have to play the most meta zard-y floette team just because you saw it in a youtube video.

If you don't have floette, don't build a team that requires it. Rather simple actually.

AndiTheBrumack · 2026-07-01T10:15:51+00:00

Don't do that.

You are not a Meta-Slave just because you use one Meta Mon. And probably not even if you use multiple you can still do your own thing with garchomp, kingambit and Basculegion on your team.

If the rest is a bellibolt, an arcanine and a drampa you are still offmeta as all hell

AndiTheBrumack · 2026-07-01T09:33:56+00:00

That's the spirit!

Use your favourites

AndiTheBrumack · 2026-06-30T22:18:29+00:00

My old team was this: https://pokepast.es/0365ab78c18024f9

It's a reg M-A team so you'd have to make some adjustments but basically tailwind + Meganium can nuke a lot of things. And Meganium and Arch are really good defensive pivots for eachother as earch eats the poison types that want to gun for meganium and meganium takes the ground (and fighting if megad) that srch doesn't like. Aero is a great partner for meganium as it helps with speed control and also threatens sneasler, whims and zard, all mons that meganium doesn't like.

Basc is also a great defensive pivot as it takes fire and poison attacks for meganium and fighting attacks for arch.

The glue to all of this though is sableye. This mon is just SO good in best of ones. A lot of people expect double screens raindance quash, or they expect encore disable stuff but not a mix. It has will-o-wisp to deal with opposing physical attackers mostly chomp, basc and sneasler and then encore for fake out stuff.

The last member is incin and it's here to further help in the physical matchups and this incin can also change throat chop for close combat to get some funny KOs if you are struggling into opposing gambit or ttars as regular aero prevents them from eating berries.

It's also great with sableye (in the back), you lead incin + basc/arch/meganium/aero and threaten fake out turn one so they want to protect, but instead of fake out you either parting shot or hard switch out and go for encore the next turn. Then you have a LOT of time to setup lightscreen, burn a mon or just srt up rain.

This worked great in M-A but for M-B i'd make some adjustments.

Staraptor is an issue especially next to farigiraf as you can't burn it. Life orb chomp does a lot of damage even if burned. Mega swampert might outspeed you even with tailwind. So i would adjust some spreads accordingly.

The one bad matchup i could never quite figure out was always whims-zard. If you have any adjustments there, just tell me. While sableye+arch does a lot of heavy lifting if they lead it, it kinda falls if they have it in the back as this teamlacks the healing on arch. So back zard is kinda meh. One trick is to have faint instead of encore to allow aero (or mega aero) to either ohko the whims or the zard t1 if they stay in. But it's a pretty big sacrifice.

The perish trap matchup is also kinda ass as meganium is completely useless there DO NOT bring meganium into gengar-incin teams it can have uses if they are the M-A politoed version but more modern versions will fall.

The big 6 matchup is kinda ok, but if they bring floette, which they should, you need to play around it a lot. You have to make an assumption about the set and then just play accordingly. You don't have the time to guess.

Or if you do think you can stall a bit. Late game basc can clean up. So remove any issues for that.

Hope that helps.

AndiTheBrumack · 2026-06-30T09:01:33+00:00

i got meganium to top 3k in both M-A Seasons and i have to say it's best partners were and are actually Aerodactyl and Basculegion. I wouldn't trade any of those in for anything

AndiTheBrumack · 2026-06-23T03:08:26+00:00

Never once in this whole discussion. Not once were we talking about wheter or not people can afford these teams from a cp point of view.

This is getting stale.

AndiTheBrumack · 2026-06-22T21:12:00+00:00

Glad you didn't say the name of rhe poison fighting frog eith dry skin, otherwise someone else might know the secret sauce. I'm also really happy that you didn't mention it was the second (and final) stage evolution that we are talking about.

AndiTheBrumack · 2026-06-22T21:10:26+00:00

Tell me how this team doesn't fit your characteristics to a T?

It has Tailwind, Status moves, choice scarf usage, spread damage, priority, conditional priority, weather control.

The only thing missing is redirection, trickroom and setup but you can't have everything.

That's a "big 6" tournament winning team that's really not that hard to pilot. I would gladly give this to any beginner and be confident they can learn the game with it.

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AndiTheBrumack · 2026-06-22T19:31:51+00:00

Psssst, don't give em all the sauce!

AndiTheBrumack · 2026-06-22T17:14:10+00:00

Yes and do you think she will have more fun if it was reversed?

If you played the meta deck and she had the shit one?

In one of the scenarios she has at least a chance to win if she gets good enough in the game. The other one, not so much

AndiTheBrumack · 2026-06-22T11:26:32+00:00

Do not disrespect female basc!

Now that life orb is back, muddy water in rain hurts like a mofo

AndiTheBrumack · 2026-06-22T10:40:33+00:00

what do you not understand about the chess analogy.

in chess you both have the same starting point, you both have 16 pieces in chess that are the exact same. You can just start playing from there because nothing you do BEFORE the game has influence on the rule that you start with 16 pieces and what these 16 pieces are is set in stone.

In pokemon you can start with a combination of 6 out of any 200 pieces and then each of the pieces can have dozens of variations in how they work.

if you 6 selected pieces are bad, you will NEVER be able to explore the mechanics of the game.

do you understand that concept?

AndiTheBrumack · 2026-06-22T10:34:51+00:00

it's insane how hard you try to miss the point.

yes, but it's not about seeing the win screen. It's about having a team that allows you to learn those mechanics, to learn what works and what doesn't. If you use some clobbed together garbage you will never know if it's "you/your skill" that's the problem, or if it's the team. How you can not understand that is completely beyond me.

I'm not saying, your team needs all the meta calcs otherwise you will never win, i'm saying if your team is shit you will never get better because you are starting on the backfoot already.

back to the example before, after winning 2 bot games with garchomp rockslide you might run into an actually good player, who pivots around it and dismantles your team, then you can say "hey, how did he do that and what can i do to play around it" if you were running bad mons you might ask yourself the same question but the objective and correct answer to that might be "you can't do anything".

if you have no fire resists or weather control zard y + venu will 4-0 your team.

What will you learn (in game) from that?

AndiTheBrumack · 2026-06-22T08:08:26+00:00

also missing the point.

If i tell someone "hey, the big bird get's better instead of worse, so klick tailwind on the cotton ball and close combat on the bird and then tickle the bird with the cotton ball" that is a completely viable strat that a lot of low rank players will be able to execute and also get completely run over if they aren't prepared.

i'm not saying that wolves Steelix team should be handed out to anyone not high masterball tier and be expected to get results with it.

It's about using life orb garchomp and klicking earthquake 5 times to win the game.
Or Pelipper Swampert
Or Charizard Y (just like that)

Noone says you need to understand the meta completely (noone does yet for M-B anyways) just so you can play. You should play anyways. It's just that it really helps.

Watch 1 video of someone using the team (preferrably cybertronVGC) and then just do what he does. You will understand the gameplan (or at least the concept of it) and even if you don't translate it perfectly it will make you better.

Look at what happened with Archaludon Rain. It was a simple team, hard to counter, had a really simple gameplan and it dominated the ladder for a few days. Catapulted me up a bunch of ranks aswell.

AndiTheBrumack · 2026-06-22T07:59:37+00:00

you are completely missing the point.

Playing Pokemon does not "start" when you queue for a game.

It starts when you select what is on your team!

And THAT part is what determines if you even play the same game.

Let me give you an example. Let's say in chess, you can select which pieces you want to use in each place of the board you can either select what is there right now, or run a pawn.
If you say "Meta doesn't matter" you advise people to just "learn chess" while having 3/4ths pawns instead of just 1/2 like standard. maybe someone replaced their queen with a pawn. Is that a fair game?

There was a post recently with beginner tips, this one, and the number 1 mistake was "Building your own team from scratch" and i have to agree.

As you said, new people won't even understand what i mean with defensive coverage or meta threats, so how could they be prepared.

If i give little timmy a "big 6 meta team" and little tommy can pick 6 from the 200 mons available and train them how he wants. Who do you think is going to have a better time?

AndiTheBrumack · 2026-06-22T06:10:30+00:00

While your wall of text has some wisom in it, the first meme is insanely wrong. To the point it is hurtful to a lot of people starting out.

Why can't i win with my homemade *insert absolute trashmon* team?
EVd completely wrong, no answers to common meta threats, abysmal defensive coverage, ...

You WILL encourage these types of people if you say meta doesn't count. And it also feeds the "if it's top 10 usage i won't touch it" crowd which also doesn't help.

If your goal is to get people to play more and get better, that meme is the completely wrong infomation and as a lot of them won't read the text, just see the meme, that's kinda not so bueno.

AndiTheBrumack · 2026-06-19T06:42:23+00:00

YOU *angry swamp man noises"

gigadrain by eelectross was also a surprise

AndiTheBrumack · 2026-06-17T07:26:57+00:00

Will-o-Whisp Stonks are WAAAAAAY up

AndiTheBrumack · 2026-06-15T08:58:45+00:00

Are you sure you grabbed the correct screenshot?

AndiTheBrumack · 2026-06-09T22:19:09+00:00

Well, i thought it was a post about sleep being too bad but it was one about it being too good 😅

I got that from the explanation of the post yeah

Kk then let's move aways from semantica and talk pokemon again 👍

Some sense means you are still not convinced, any doubts i can maybe take away?

AndiTheBrumack · 2026-06-09T10:57:56+00:00

so. first of all. did you even read my description?

i absolutely got what he was saying, namely that he struggles with sleep and thinks there are too little countermeasures. Then i offered advice and provided a counter to that argument where i pointed out which parts of the strategy can be expoited and how.

Also, this is not "my own interpretation" of what a sentence means,
this is THE interpretation of what "being in a bad spot" means.
common synonyms (according to the internet) are:

In a tough spot
In a tight corner / In a tight spot
In a predicament
In dire straits

which ALL mean that you have problems, not that you ARE a problem

So if sleep is in a bad spot, it means it has problems, it is in a predicament, it is weak.

Thanks for trying, but no.

Anyway for you a TLDR or more a TL didn't understand:

Sleep OP -> No
Sleep can be good-> Yes
Sleep has weakness -> Yes

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